Gods of Rap, featuring Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and De La Soul and Dublin’s 3Arena. Photos by Peter O’Hanlon.
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Dublin’s 3Arena will play hosted to one one of the strongest bills of the year in May. The sole Irish installment of the Gods of Rap 2019 tour, hip-hop giants Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and De La Soul will play the venue on May 14th. The show will be hosted and presented by DJ Premier. The tour will mark the anniversary of three iconic records: Wu-Tang’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) turns 25, Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back turns 30, and De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising turns 30. Tickets are…
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The Prodigy and Public Enemy brought their globetrotting arena tour to Dublin’s 3Arena and Belfast’s SSE Arena this week. Photos by Brian Mulligan and Alan Maguire respectively. 3Arena, Dublin SSE Arena, Belfast
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Cork’s Indiependence Music and Arts Festival saw in its grand fourteenth year in style at the weekend. Featuring the likes of Public Enemy, Tom Odell, Hozier, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip, The Altered Hours and many more, check out Rory Coomey’s first-rate photo set from the the festival below.
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Hands down one of Cork’s finest annual festivals, Indiependence returns to Mitcheltown’s Deer Park across the weekend of August 1-3, headlined by hip-hop overlords Public Enemy, London post-punk trio White Lies and Tom Odell. Better still, this year’s festival boasts some of the very finest acts, of every conceivable ilk and genre, that fall comfortably under the banner “homegrown”. Whether you look to the cosmically-inclined rapture of Cork’s The Altered Hours or Belfast-based indie-pop quartet Go Wolf, amongst several others, the veritable cream of Ireland’s musical crop will be nicely represented across the weekend. Check out the full line-up for the festival…
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Legendary New York hip-hop group Public Enemy are set to play Belfast’s Limelight 1 on Tuesday, August 5. Consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, DJ Lord and more, the show will mark pioneering Long Island outfit’s debut show in the city, thirty two years after they formed. Lauded for albums including Fear of a Black Planet and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the group released their twelfth studio album, The Evil Empire of Everything, back in 2012. Tickets for the show go on sale from Ticketmaster right here at 9am on Monday morning (June 30). Watch the video…
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Featuring the likes of Public Enemy, Daithi, Warpaint, 2manyDJS and Wild Beasts, photographer Isabel Thomas shoots the Saturday of this year’s Forbidden Fruit festival at Royal Hospital Kinmainham, Dublin.
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With the final acts being announced at the start of the month, the stage-times and running order for this year’s Forbidden Fruit festival have just been announced. Featuring the likes of The Flaming Lips, Flying Lotus and Public Enemy, this year’s festival will also include sets from Irish acts including Girls Names and And So I Watch You From Afar. Set to take place on the grounds of Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin on the June bank holiday weekend of Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1. Check out the final poster and stage-times for the festival, as well as our…